The Rambler, by S. Johnson, المجلد 2Alexander Chalmers 1812 |
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... cause they cannot support the sorrows , or endure the wants , of their present condition , but because they consider them as only the beginnings of more sharp and more lasting pains . To these mourners it is an act of the highest ...
... cause they cannot support the sorrows , or endure the wants , of their present condition , but because they consider them as only the beginnings of more sharp and more lasting pains . To these mourners it is an act of the highest ...
الصفحة 13
... cause , is never without its encomiasts and admirers . But in the pros- pect of poverty , there is nothing but gloom and me- lancholy ; the mind and body suffer together ; its mise- ries bring no alleviations ; it is a state in which ...
... cause , is never without its encomiasts and admirers . But in the pros- pect of poverty , there is nothing but gloom and me- lancholy ; the mind and body suffer together ; its mise- ries bring no alleviations ; it is a state in which ...
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... extend his views through a long concate- nation of causes and effects , to trace things from their origin to their period , and compare means with ends , may discover the weakness of human schemes ; detect the No. 54. ] 19 THE RAMBLER .
... extend his views through a long concate- nation of causes and effects , to trace things from their origin to their period , and compare means with ends , may discover the weakness of human schemes ; detect the No. 54. ] 19 THE RAMBLER .
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... caused , and now cannot repair . Of the same kind are the emotions which the death of an emulator or competitor produces . Who- ever had qualities to alarm our jealousy , had excellence to deserve our fondness ; and to whatever ardour ...
... caused , and now cannot repair . Of the same kind are the emotions which the death of an emulator or competitor produces . Who- ever had qualities to alarm our jealousy , had excellence to deserve our fondness ; and to whatever ardour ...
الصفحة 42
... cause has called forth , a single convert was ever made ; that even one man has refused to be rich , when to be rich was in his power , from the conviction of the greater happiness of a narrow fortune ; or disburthened him- self of ...
... cause has called forth , a single convert was ever made ; that even one man has refused to be rich , when to be rich was in his power , from the conviction of the greater happiness of a narrow fortune ; or disburthened him- self of ...
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acquaintance amuse ance attention beauty Catiline censure common considered contempt critick curiosity danger daugh delight Demochares desire diligence domestick Dryden duty endeavour envy equally errour excellence expect eyes FALSEHOOD fancy favour fear felicity flatter folly fortune frequently friendship Gabba gayety genius give gratifications happiness heart HESIOD hexameter honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited inclined inquiry JUPITER justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look ments Milton mind misery narchs nature necessary neglect ness never nity numbers observed once opinion ourselves Ovid pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise precepts pride publick racter RAMBLER reason regard riches riety SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sophism sound stancy suffer syllables tenderness thing thought thousand tion tivate TRUTH TUESDAY vanity verse virtue vowels wisdom wish writers
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الصفحة 244 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
الصفحة 229 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
الصفحة 53 - We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
الصفحة 56 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
الصفحة 85 - Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called...
الصفحة 86 - He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me," said the hermit, " by what chance thou hast been brought hither : I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
الصفحة 172 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
الصفحة 52 - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
الصفحة 55 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot, in his account of Catiline, to remark that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion.
الصفحة 57 - ... who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. 'Let me remember (says Hale) when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.